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First time? Use Ubuntu. Not only is it easy to use and a good UX overall, most tutorials assume a Ubuntu based distro (there are differences between distros that can be...hard to translate over). That's going to be really useful when you're looking up how to do stuff
Another vote for Ubuntu.
I tried it as my first Linux distro about 5 years ago. There was some learning curve, but I really enjoyed it.
I've been using it for 5 years now. I'm glad I switched from windows!
thanks!!!
It's not that different, dude, and it's not like they don't give you a tutorial on first boot either.
Gauge your audience dude. A Linux newbie will not know wtf anything you just named is. (For any other newbies reading, these are all 'desktop environments' - essentially collections of programs that make up a user interface)
well I did watch a video about desktop environment, I believe it was a tierlist video tho
I do need to be fair though... The ones the other person mentioned, they are infact more 'windows-like' than Ubuntu's default. It isn't hard to learn Ubuntu's setup by any means but it is something to learn.
The side dock is a taskbar except on the left hand side. Big whoop. Top panel is basically the system tray as seen on Windows, with all functionality fairly obvious just by looking at it, and there is infact a start button where you can type in the program name you're looking for, just like most people do in Windows. Not exactly MacOS levels of relearning.
Or...you can explain what you are talking about. Like I did for you. Sending newbies off on wild Google chases is not helpful.
The people that shat themselves over Windows 8 probably aren't the kind of people to experiment with a new OS.
Why not?
This is not 2005 when the vast majority's experience with interactive UX on a screen was Windows. People today operate Android, iOS much more so than Windows. Thus they are able to grok multiple OS chrome paradigms without much difficulty. And then the OS chrome is rather simple and therefore learning it doesn't cost much or yield significant benefits should you have gotten that knowledge for free. Therefore the argument for choosing an OS based on its chrome is as shallow as the chrome itself. The difficult stuff is things not working due to defects (bugs), finding solutions and implementing them and that's where the OS choice yields the highest benefit. On that front few options beat Ubuntu LTS other than perhaps Debian, but Debian isn't novice-friendly.
Parent comment is right. The body of documentation generated for Ubuntu by the community is an enormous asset. It's one of the important side effects of it being the most used distro.